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1930s, Maps, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis

Wednesday, 7 September 1938

At last, after all the endless reports of meetings to seemingly no end: actual details! As the above — from the Manchester Guardian (p. 9) — shows, the Czech autonomy proposals (first reported yesterday) were pretty generous. The Sudetens (and presumably other minorities) would get self-government, language equality, their own civil servants and police. I’m

1910s, 1920s, Books, Maps, Pictures

Come friendly bombs and fall on Stonehenge

A few months ago I looked at some visions of how aerial warfare might improve the city by blowing away ugly developments. Here’s a similar fantasy of better planning through bombing, though the site in question is a rather surprising one: Stonehenge. From Clough Williams-Ellis’s diatribe against the debeautification of the countryside, England and the

After 1950, Australia, Cold War, Film, Games and simulations, Maps, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Pictures

A strange game

This week is the 25th anniversary of the Australian cinematic release of WarGames, which is mainly significant because I missed the anniversary of the US release a few weeks ago! There were a few retrospectives floating about then, which focused on the movie’s importance as an early popularisation of the hacking and phreaking subcultures, and

1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Air defence, Aircraft, Art, Books, Civil defence, Conferences and talks, Disarmament, Film, International air force, Maps, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Plots and tables, Thesis, Videos

Facing Armageddon

This is the talk I gave at Earth Sciences back in May. It’s long and picture heavy and much of it will be be familiar to regular readers, but some people expressed some interest in it so here it is. I’ve lightly edited it, mainly to correct typos in my written copy. I’ve put in

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